Post by Yves Windhäuser

One single carbon credit. Up to four years of work. Most people picture carbon credit trading as simple: capture methane, flare it, sell the certificate. The reality looks rather different. I had the opportunity to work through the entire lifecycle of a landfill gas project end-to-end — together with Michael Strehler and Guillermo Pomphile of TrustVal, who know the process from hands-on practice and refined my outline. What it reveals: → 6 phases, more than 15 individual steps — from feasibility study to credit retirement → Two fully independent audits by accredited verifiers (DOE/VVB) → A wide range of stakeholders: site operators, host country authorities, registries, auditors, buyers → 2 to 4 years to the first credit — and hardly any two projects run the same way This lack of standardisation is one of the real bottlenecks of the voluntary carbon market. And it's exactly where digital MRV comes in: continuous, sensor-based measurement instead of manual audits — turning the process into something that finally scales. What fascinates me about it is something familiar from more than 20 years in Supply Chain Management and Controlling: structuring complex, regulated, audit-sensitive processes across many stakeholders and making them actually work. The fact that this same logic can now help deliver measurable benefits for the climate is genuinely exciting to me. The full interactive lifecycle is here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eVbD7E8g #CarbonCredits #ClimateTech #MRV #VoluntaryCarbonMarket #TrustVal